Reform and resistance : gender, delinquency, and America's first juvenile court / Anne Meis Knupfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knupfer, Anne Meis, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illinois. Juvenile Court (Cook County)--History.

Illinois.

Illinois. Juvenile Court (Cook County).

Juvenile courts--Illinois--Cook County--History.

Juvenile courts.

Female juvenile delinquents--Legal status, laws, etc--Illinois--Cook County--History.

Female juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile delinquency--Illinois--Cook County--History.

Juvenile delinquency.

History.

Illinois--Cook County.

Physical Description:

x, 290 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

Although historians frequently invoke "public opinion" as a significant force, very few have engaged it in a critical fashion. And none have given serious treatment to the crucial role this concept played in the French Revolution. To Speak for the People is a lucid and innovative study that finally fills this gap.

Historian Jon Cowans adds a genuinely original voice to the debate over the problem of legitimacy during the Revolution, drawing on the works of Jurgen Habermas, Keith Baker, Francois Furet, and Nancy Fraser. He examines the use of terms such as "public opinion", "the public", and "the people" in political debates and analyzes their changing meanings over the course of the Revolution.

While shedding new light on the Revolution itself, the book raises broader issues about the problem of legitimacy that has haunted all revolutionary and democratic governments throughout the modern period.

Contents:

pt. 1. The professionalization of delinquency. Female delinquency : social reform and sociology

Psychomedical models of delinquency

The "helping" professions : female probation and police officers and African-American social workers

pt. 2. Delinquent girls in and out of the juvenile court. Work and leisure in delinquent girls' lives

The Cook County Juvenile Court and delinquent girls

The Chicago Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic Institute

pt. 3. Reform institutions for delinquent girls. The Chicago Home for Girls

The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois

The House of the Good Shepherd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0415925975

0415925983

OCLC:

46319621